Debating humanity : towards a philosophical sociology / / Daniel Chernilo [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Chernilo Daniel
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK, : Cambridge University Press, 2016; Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Humanism; Human beings; Philosophical anthropology
• Soggetto non controllato: Sociology; Philosophy; Anthropocentrism; Hannah Arendt; Human; Humanism; Immanuel Kant; Jean-Paul Sartre; Jürgen Habermas; Martin Heidegger; Social norm
• Persona (resp. second.): CherniloDaniel
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019).; Open Access title.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit anthropological arguments put forward by seven leading postwar theorists: self-transcendence (Hannah Arendt), adaptation (Talcott Parsons), responsibility (Hans Jonas), language (Jürgen Habermas), strong evaluations (Charles Taylor), reflexivity (Margaret Archer) and reproduction of life (Luc Boltanski). Genuinely interdisciplinary and boldly argued, Daniel Chernilo has crafted a novel philosophical sociology that defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.
• Titolo autorizzato: Debating humanity
• ISBN: 9781316416303; 9781316996027; 9781107129337; 1107129338; 9781107569867; 1107569869
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910213852403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II